RE: 5 Reasons Steemit Is Being Mocked
yep, i think you smashed it outta the park with this. one thing i will say is appearance too. i'm hoping that the new condenser is a lot more up to date and polished or at least gives us better UI options and features, i know that for me when i first got here it felt like a forum. people don't do forums in the general public normally but yet take part in bullshit conversations on a facebook comment -- something about that 'other person is typing' is kinda a hook to wait for the person to response.
i don't know how realistic some kind of ajax waiting to submit to the steemit blockchain 3.5 second transaction time that would make sense but we need to bring the look and the styling up to date with current web interfaces -- the current style and trend at least.
i'm often really surprised at the fact that a lot of other bloggers have not got on board too, a lot of times people just don't want to put in the work. being a person that works remotely on upwork i see a lot of people posting jobs for bloggers to MANAGE their content for them and i think there also lays the problem, people are going for the super short terms wins and paying out to people maintaining a faux persona through their blogs.
on the back of that a lot of blogging platforms get either hacked, spammed or no engagement at all. if you are a small business that's been told to 'blog' and had no results it's very difficult for them people to return and because they don't trust it or had little from it before they don't want to put in the time to see it work.
i'm working on a new project called amplify, picking 10 people at a time, spending 60 steem setting up accounts, sending them 32 little courses for content creators and emailing or speaking directly to onboard them until hf20 arrives -- mainly selfish because i want to bring the people i like on other social channels here but also because i know collectively they have already done audience development on their respective social sites. if we can get even a 10% slices of viewers following them here that's a nice bump in signups which helps the ecosystem.
thanks for this thought provoking post. needed to be said!
It's the inertia, IMHO. I talked to high profile bloggers about Steemit, and the first thing they asked me was: "but can you build your list off of this platform?" which signals to me that they are way too hooked to "old" (feels weird to name a mailing list an "old" way to make money off of a blog) ways to monetize their work. They kinda don't get it, yet...
sounds like a very nice one, good luck with it!
thanks man. and you are right, they need to get off that 'mailing list' crap. we live in an on demand, real time world. building lists just so they can bombard them every few months with a 'product' is not the way forward. i guess some high profile bloggers only care for the 'business' end of profit and fake the community bit. if that's their world so be it. lonely at the top! ;)
exactly :)
Sorry to burst your guy's bubble, but it is a known fact that pay-to-win systems never last,and that is precisely what Steemit is my friends.
Someday soon, only the whales will be left, dispatching their bots, to give their whale buddies some votes, and so on so forth... in an infinite loop.
It's not their fault either, it's just the way the system was built.
That's an interesting opinion.... since I've never purchased a single steem, and now derive more than 50% of my income from blogging and participating here. "Pay to Win?" Not in my experience.
Glad you're making it, but sadly, the great majority of peeps out there are not like you, hence the active user numbers here on Steemit. Plus, you're probably listed on a bunch of bots auto-up-vote lists at this point, hence the fabricated success.